The Yale Innovation Community
Building a company takes more than an idea. It takes mentors who’ve done it, investors who ask hard questions, and cofounders you haven’t met yet. Yale Ventures brings them together, all year long.
Connecting Yale Innovators
We connect innovators across Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, and beyond with the people and resources they need to grow.
Tell the stories
We profile the founders, faculty, and students behind Yale innovation, so partners and talent can find them.
Bring people together
100+ events a year, from monthly networking to the Yale Innovation Summit. Each one is a chance to learn, collaborate, or find what’s next.
Build the ecosystem
We work across Yale, our city and state, and beyond—together we make this a place where Yale ventures can start, grow, and stay.
Develop the talent
Students gain startup experience as Associates and Fellows. Founders get access to 220 experienced EIRs and IIRs.
Find your way in
Faculty
Turn your research into a venture, with mentors and translational funding along the way.
Students
Join a team, pitch an idea, or work alongside our staff as a student associate.
Industry & Investors
Meet Yale startups, license technologies, and partner with Yale researchers.
Connecticut partners
Help build the state’s innovation economy with Yale.
INNOVATION Events
Pitch competitions, hackathons, awards, and the Summit: here’s how the year runs.
Upcoming Events
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
Yale Innovation Summit
The Northeast’s largest innovation gathering: two days, thousands of founders, investors, researchers, and creatives, and 60+ sessions across Arts, Biotech, Civic, Climate, Health, and Tech. More than 300 ventures pitch for funding and visibility. Hosted by Yale Ventures and open to the whole innovation ecosystem.
Innovation in Action: Highlights from the 2026 Yale Innovation Summit
2,600+
Annual attendees
347
Ventures showcased, annually
$492k
Startup awards, annually
SPOTLIGHTS & STORIES
Sharing and promoting stories of the people and places that drive Yale's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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Talent & Network
Yale students and experienced operators doing real work in Yale and Connecticut startups.
Startups need skilled people to grow, and students need real experience to find their path. We connect the two. Associates and fellows work alongside founders and our teams, and 220 entrepreneurs-in-residence mentor Yale ventures from the first customer conversation to the first raise.
400+
Yale Ventures fellows & associates, since 2017
44%
Associates who go on to work in VC or startups
Paid roles on Yale Ventures teams during the academic year and summer, open to students from every Yale school.
The one-year Blavatnik Fellowship brings life science professionals into Yale and New Haven’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Postdocs and advanced engineering graduate students gain operational skills needed to de-risk technologies and support commercialization.
A new talent program connecting Yale PhD students and Yale spinouts and CT startups.
A new talent program connecting Yale PhD students and Yale spinouts and CT startups.